X

Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
Filter
Type of Material
Type of Publication
Consortium
Language
  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Karl Pearson : The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age (2006)
    Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
    Details
    UID:
    (DE-604)BV042522727
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (352 S.)
    ISBN: 9781400835706
    Note: Main description: Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest, reflected also in his socialism and his efforts to find a new basis for relations between men and women. This biography recounts Pearson's extraordinary intellectual adventure and sheds new light on the inner life of science. Theodore Porter's intensely personal portrait of Pearson extends from religious crisis and sexual tensions to metaphysical and even mathematical anxieties. Pearson sought to reconcile reason with enthusiasm and to achieve the impersonal perspective of science without sacrificing complex individuality. Even as he longed to experience nature directly and intimately, he identified science with renunciation and positivistic detachment. Porter finds a turning point in Pearson's career, where his humanistic interests gave way to statistical ones, in his Grammar of Science (1892), in which he attempted to establish scientific method as the moral educational basis for a refashioned culture. In this original and engaging book, a leading historian of modern science investigates the interior experience of one man's scientific life while placing it in a rich tapestry of social, political, and intellectual movements
    Language: English
    Keywords: Pearson, Karl 1857-1936 ; Biografie
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400835706
    URL: Volltext
    URL: Volltext
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Online Resource
    Online Access
    Open Access Request
    BVB
  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Trust in numbers : the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life (2021)
    Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Details
    UID:
    (DE-603)510307248
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (344 pages).
    Edition: New edition. /
    ISBN: 9780691210544
    Series Statement: Princeton scholarship online
    Content: What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. 'Trust in Numbers' questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place.
    Note: This edition previously issued in print: 2020 , Includes bibliographical references and index
    Additional Edition: 9780691208411
    Language: English
    Subjects: Sociology
    RVK:
    MS 6950
    DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691208411.001.0001
    URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691208411.001.0001
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Online Resource
    Open Access Request
    HeBIS
  • 3
    Book
    Book
    〈〈THE〉〉 RISE OF STATISTICAL THINKING 1820-1900 (1986)
    PRINCETON,N.J. : PRINCETON UNIV. PRESS
    Details
    UID:
    (DE-605)TT000536860
    Format: XII, 333 S.
    Language: Undetermined
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Book
    HBZ
  • 4
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Trust in Numbers : The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (2020)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press
    Details
    UID:
    (DE-605)HT020719807
    Format: 1 online resource (344 p.)
    ISBN: 9780691210544
    Content: A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1515/9780691210544
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691210544
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691210544
    URL: Cover
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Online Resource
    Open Access Request
    HBZ
  • 5
    Book
    Book
    Trust in numbers : the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life (1996)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press
    Details
    UID:
    (DE-603)11437760X
    Format: XIV, 310 S.
    Edition: 2nd print., 1st paperback print.
    ISBN: 0691029083 , 0691037760
    Language: English
    Subjects: Sociology
    RVK:
    MR 3000
    RVK:
    MS 6950
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Book
    HeBIS
  • 6
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    The Cambridge history of science; 7: Modern social sciences / ed. by Theodore M. Porter ... (2003)
    Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press
    Show associated volumes
    Details
    UID:
    (DE-602)gbv_1374607770
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2008 Online-Ressource
    ISBN: 9781139053556
    Content: This volume provides a history of the concepts, practices, institutions, and ideologies of social sciences (including behavioural and economic sciences) since the eighteenth century. It offers original, synthetic accounts of the historical development of social knowledge, including its philosophical assumptions, its social and intellectual organization, and its relations to science, medicine, politics, bureaucracy, philosophy, religion, and the professions. Its forty-two chapters include inquiries into the genres and traditions that formed social science, the careers of the main social disciplines (psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, history, and statistics), and international essays on social science in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It also includes essays that examine the involvement of the social sciences in government, business, education, culture, and social policy. This is a broad cultural history of social science, which analyzes from a variety of perspectives its participation in the making of the modern world
    In: 7
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0521594421
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521594424
    Additional Edition: Druckausg. The Cambridge history of science ; 7: The modern social sciences Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003 ISBN 9780521594424
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0521594421
    Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9780521594424
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521594424
    URL: Volltext
    URL: Rezension
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Online Resource
    Online Access
    Open Access Request
    Stabi Berlin
    KOBV
  • 7
    Book
    Book
    Trust in numbers : the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life (1995)
    Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press
    Details
    UID:
    (DE-602)b3kat_BV010224124
    Format: XIV, 310 S.
    ISBN: 0691037760
    Content: This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, indeed, how should we understand the pervasiveness of quantification in the sciences of nature? In his view, we should look in the reverse direction: comprehending the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research will teach us something new about its role in psychology, physics, and medicine
    Content: Drawing on a wide range of examples from the laboratory and from the worlds of accounting, insurance, cost-benefit analysis, and civil engineering, Porter shows that it is "exactly wrong" to interpret the drive for quantitative rigor as inherent somehow in the activity of science except where political and social pressures force compromise. Instead, quantification grows from attempts to develop a strategy of impersonality in response to pressures from outside. Objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts, quantification becoming most important where elites are weak, where private negotiation is suspect, and where trust is in short supply
    Language: English
    Subjects: Philosophy , Sociology
    RVK:
    CC 3200
    RVK:
    MR 3000
    RVK:
    MS 6950
    Keywords: Statistik ; Objektivität ; Objektivität ; Wissenschaft ; Wissenschaftssoziologie
    URL: Publisher description
    URL: Table of contents
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Book
    FU Berlin get availability status
    Charité get availability status
    BTU Cottbus get availability status
    TU Berlin get availability status
    KOBV
  • 8
    Book
    Book
    Trust in numbers : the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life (1995)
    Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press
    Details
    UID:
    (DE-604)BV010224124
    Format: XIV, 310 S.
    ISBN: 0691037760
    Content: This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, indeed, how should we understand the pervasiveness of quantification in the sciences of nature? In his view, we should look in the reverse direction: comprehending the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research will teach us something new about its role in psychology, physics, and medicine
    Content: Drawing on a wide range of examples from the laboratory and from the worlds of accounting, insurance, cost-benefit analysis, and civil engineering, Porter shows that it is "exactly wrong" to interpret the drive for quantitative rigor as inherent somehow in the activity of science except where political and social pressures force compromise. Instead, quantification grows from attempts to develop a strategy of impersonality in response to pressures from outside. Objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts, quantification becoming most important where elites are weak, where private negotiation is suspect, and where trust is in short supply
    Language: English
    Subjects: Philosophy , Sociology
    RVK:
    CC 3200
    RVK:
    MR 3000
    RVK:
    MS 6950
    Keywords: Statistik ; Objektivität ; Objektivität ; Wissenschaft ; Wissenschaftssoziologie
    URL: Publisher description
    URL: Table of contents
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Book
    FU Berlin get availability status
    Charité get availability status
    BTU Cottbus get availability status
    TU Berlin get availability status
    BVB
  • 9
    Book
    Book
    The modern social sciences (2003)
    Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press
    Details
    UID:
    (DE-603)114093962
    Format: XXVII, 762 S.
    ISBN: 0521594421
    Series Statement: The Cambridge history of science / general ed.: David C. Lindberg ... 7
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Natural Sciences , General works , Philosophy , Sociology
    RVK:
    AK 16000
    RVK:
    AK 17000
    RVK:
    AK 18400
    RVK:
    CC 6100
    RVK:
    MS 6950
    RVK:
    NU 1500
    RVK:
    NU 2000
    RVK:
    TB 2300
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Book
    HeBIS
  • 10
    Book
    Book
    Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age (2004)
    Princeton : Princeton Univ. Press
    Details
    UID:
    (DE-603)119082675
    Format: 342 S.
    ISBN: 0691114455
    Language: English
    Subjects: Mathematics
    RVK:
    SG 261
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Book
    HeBIS
Nothing or not found what you are looking for? Please check your search query. For a search / Interlibrary loan from abroad use the search set "KOBV International" in the old KOBV portal.
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. Further information can be found on the KOBV privacy pages